building sustainable communities
Over the last 20 years, public and private partners have collaborated to generate many positive changes in Central Virginia neighborhoods. Individual success stories abound; yet, as a city, we have not revisited our overall system of support for community development activities since the late 1990s. We have reached a point at which we need a holistic approach to healthy community building that harnesses individual energy and community resources to help our neighborhoods unite for progress and move from good neighborhoods to great neighborhoods.
National LISC Programs
- Affordable Housing Preservation
- AmeriCorps
- Community Investment Collaborative for Kids
- Community Safety Initiative
- Educational Facilities Financing Center
- Centers for Working Families
- Green Development Center
- Housing Authority Resource Center
- Research and Assessment
- Vacant Properties
- Youth and Recreation
This is the goal of Richmond and Petersburg’s Neighborhoods Rising. This strategy is a renewed approach to community development activities across the cities that promote neighborhood-driven improvements. You know best what your immediate community needs. By giving you the support needed to assume more direct control over the face of your neighborhood, and by following up with implementation assistance, Virginia LISC along with partners will help realize neighbor-driven dreams and build a neighbor-driven structure that will result in a greater feeling of community and shared responsibility to maintain and build on community improvements.
Neighborhoods Rising encourages and supports local, neighborhood-based, efforts to build healthy communities of opportunity in the broadest sense, while connecting them and their residents to the mainstream economy.
Five goals comprise this approach: